Here is a 2 part newsletter that Jinjee shared concerning fruit/raw food and diabetes as well as candida overgrowth. She echoes what I am hearing by so many people that have experimented with varying degrees of raw food percentage intake. It seems to take a commitment of 100% raw foods to bring about effective healing. Even 1% cooked is enough to hault the healing effects of raw food in some conditions and people.

Date: 3/24/2006 5:35:52 AM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 2784 times

If you are healing from a sugar-related condition such as diabetes or candida and you are not 100% raw then even fruit sugars should be avoided and green juices be substituted instead. But amazingly enough a woman with type 1 diabetes went on the OJ Diet recently and emailed me that she was able to cut her insulin out completely by the end of the two weeks. She went back on a 100% raw food diet and found that because of the foods she had to increase the insulin just slightly (still she’s down to 4 units instead of 30 previous to the OJ Diet). She was also re-diagnosed with type 2 diabetes because of course type 1 is incurable. I had the opportunity to meet this beautiful woman at our premiere in LA earlier this month! I was amazed by her story because I would never have recommended the OJ diet to someone with diabetes! I think the fact that she had been raw-vegan for 8 months before starting the OJ Diet was part of her success. I hope she will write an ebook about her experience and I will definitely help promote it if she does!

Jinjee

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Wow! I had so many emails back in response to the last emails about orange juice and sugar! A lot of people are shocked about doing that much sugar. And on the other hand several people who had diabetes wrote that they too have improved their condition with a raw diet including fruit. Many of them were amazed. I would like to compile these stories into an article. If anyone has any such experiences of healing in general that they would like to share, please email them to me at info@thegardendiet.com in any length! One type 1 diabetic drastically lowered the amount of insulin she had to take by going completely raw and drinking carrot juice daily. One Mother cut her type 1 diabetic daughter’s insulin doses in half with an 80% raw food diet. A woman who was born into a medical research family reduced her insulin dramatically – down to a pediatric dose - after going raw three weeks ago and is just amazed. A chiropractor wrote that h is wife had bad experiences on a fruity raw diet. One person pointed out that we are all different, which I think is a hugely important point. Some of us seem to need a primarily fruity diet while others gravitate to primarily vegetables.

My belief is that on a 100% raw vegan diet you can eat as much fruit as you want. But if you have any cooked food at all in your system, even 1%, then your internal environment is compromised so that even the fruit sugars cause negative reactions. This is what I found from experimenting on myself. And by a 100% raw vegan diet I mean “The Garden Diet”, which is a diet without dehydrated or fermented raw vegan foods. The nuts should be soaked if the person is not in perfect digestive health. “The Garden Diet” is 90% fresh organic fruits and vegetables. We also include Celtic Sea Salt, Raw unfiltered honey, and cold pressed organic extra virgin olive oil. These condiments are not recommended while in the healing state. If a person is in poor health or is not in terrific digestive health then it is best to eat just whole fruits and vegetables and a milk made of soaked almonds blended with just water and strained through a cheese cloth. If the person has a sugar-related condition it may be better to leave out the fruits for the first one to six months depending on how long it takes their internal environment to become healthy. That’s just my opinion based on the case histories I’ve seen and heard and read about over the last 13 years as well as my own personal experience in overcoming candida.